Walker's video works are directly related to the work that brought her fame: the wall installations of black-and-white silhouettes, cut from paper, in which she examines racial stereotypes, sexual…
Body parts on hung from a clothesline, mannequins that come to life and human teeth as currency: the Silvia Martes film The Revolutions That Did (Not) Happen (2021) quickly gives rise to an ominous…
This photograph is one out of the series Without Trace . They are all views of Zurich’s snow-covered outskirts in winter. They were taken on several visits to Zurich that Doherty undertook in the…
Gravesend is a seventeen-minute film about the mineral coltan. The film is often being shown in combination with Unexploded , a recording of less than one minute which McQueen made in Basra in 2003,…
The oeuvre of Marc Mulders is determined by what may very well be the great theme in the history of art: the endless cycle of life and death. The expression of living and dying, death and…
Thomas Schütte’s Großer Respekt (1994) has the look of a model for a public square, the center of which is to have a large monument. The sculpture is reminiscent of the well-known work by Rodin, The…
The mushrooms, poppies, grasses and other plants that we encounter in the realistic work of Roxy Paine are made from synthetic materials and painted by hand. These ‘growths’ look entirely natural and…
Here, in thin green lines, the strange form of the motif has been drawn in an organized manner. Originally that fantasy unfolded in a drawing. There it was loosely sketched, I recall, with pastel…
The work of Jean Pierre Raynaud is strikingly consistent and varied at the same time. Characteristic of this are the recurrent motifs such as traffic signs, flower pots and gauges. Clear-cut color…
The art of Richard Serra clearly stems from the industrial age. Many of his works are made of massive slabs of steel that can have a somewhat intimidating presence. With the steel constructions, one…